Reply #54: From the first post:

[Make7]

Quote: "the Commission Report states: 9:20 UA headquarters aware that Flight 175 had crashed into WTC (p. 32) Unfortunately this is simply not true."

How do you know that is not true? They didn't immediately hold a press conference? Maybe they were busy wondering what their other planes might crash into.
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Quote: "United is also saying now that they are concerned about a further flight that apparently is still missing, flight 175. It is a Boeing 767. It was scheduled from Boston to Los Angeles. That flight apparently is still unaccounted for, according to officials from United."

A company not releasing information. (Possibly pending a decision from their lawyers.)
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Quote: "UA confirms that Flight 175 crashed but ….: “United Airlines Flight 175: A Boeing 767 crashes. The flight was bound from Boston to Los Angeles. It carried 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. The airline would not say where that plane crashed.”"

A company releasing some information, but only (possibly) what their lawyers approved.
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My point was that a company might not release information right away that could possibly open them up to lawsuits. They might want to check with their lawyers first. Just because certain information is not released to the press does not constitute proof that they don't have said information. (This is only regarding the United flights, American might have different procedures for releasing information.)
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Also from your first post:

Quote: "Also Michael McCormick, the FAA's New York air traffic manager had nothing mysterious to tell in “a press conference in which air traffic controllers in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C., made their first extensive public comments since the attacks.”
(Boston Globe, 8/13/02)

Mr. MIKE McCORMICK (New York Air Traffic Manager): We tracked that aircraft as it turned southbound and then back northeast-bound, back toward Manhattan. I assumed at that point that that target of that aircraft was, in fact, the World Trade Center.
ORR: Controllers tracked the hijacked jet for 11 agonizing and helpless minutes.
Mr. McCORMICK: For those 11 minutes, I knew, we knew, what was going to happen, and that was difficult.
(CBS, 8/13/02)

''Probably one of the most difficult moments in my life was the 11 minutes from the point I watched that aircraft when we first lost communication to the point that aircraft hit the World Trade Center.
(Boston Globe, 8/13/02)
(Ottawa Citizen, 8/13/03)"

So air traffic control knew right away. They don't call the airline when one of their planes crashes? If they knew that Flight 175 hit the WTC, why would they think Flight 77 hit it also? Weren't they watching the news? Everyone knew that only one plane hit the South Tower. Why couldn't they figure it out and inform the airlines? Or better yet, just call the news media?
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Quote: "CNN states on September 12, 2001 that United Airlines confirmed at 11:59 that Flight 175 had crashed. (The other three flights had been already confirmed long before)."

Quote: "Four hours after the second attack the confusion reaches its climax:

LYNN SHERR: That--what--what you're seeing is the north tower. Behind it there's a second identical tower, as you know. That plane crashed right into it. All morning we have been told by American Airlines, among others, that that flight, that airplane, was actually American Airlines Flight 77 going out of Dulles to Los Angeles. We were told 58 passengers, four flight attendants, two pilots on that plane. It was hijacked at 9:03--I'm sorry, it was hijacked right after takeoff. Crashed into the tower at 9:03 AM.

JENNINGS: Let me stop you right there, Lynn, because I just--I have had different information so I'm going to rely on you here. You now believe the American Airlines Flight 77 which took off from Dulles on its way to Los Angeles, crashed into the Trade towers, not into the Pentagon?

SHERR: We were told that originally. What I'm about to tell you is the FBI is now saying that that's the one that went into the Pentagon. The FBI spokesperson is saying that the flight that went into World Trade Center tower number two, that's south tower, was, in fact United Airlines 175, a Boeing 767 that left Boston for LAX, departed at 7:58 AM this morning; 56 passengers, two pilots, seven flight attendants. This is confusing, I apologize. We are getting two different answers to our questions."(ABC, 9/11/01 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.)

So the other three flights had already been confirmed long before? Why did ABC not know about the details of the already long confirmed Flight 77? Didn't American know Flight 77 hit the Pentagon? Was that information not part of the confirmation? Or did they just announce that it crashed, but not say where? Did they keep it a secret from ABC?

Is there still confusion about what happened to Flight 175?

-Make7